I Hate My Lazy Incompetent Slumlord!

[queerbychoice]

Air conditioner = still broken
Homicidal rampage temptations = still tempting

My apartment has developed a distressing tendency to fade away underneath me, leaving me swaying unsteadily in near-darkness, about to keel over. After a few seconds the apartment re-steadies itself and comes back into clear well-lit focus. The problem is dehydration, which happens to me anytime the weather is warmer than approximately the freezing point of water, but which happens all the more often when the weather is all the further above the freezing point. If I drink vast volumes of fluids, it goes away; but when it's 85 degrees inside like it is today, I have to keep drinking them nonstop constantly in order to keep the world in clear well-lit focus - and frankly, I get tired of it. At this point, I'm quite sick to death of every form of fluid nourishment whose existence I've so far discovered, and I would really very much like to cease ever imbibing any of them for at least the next six months. But I can't even get away with taking a brief half-hour break from pouring ever-more gallons of the stuff down my throat, or my body starts doing scary unhealthy dysfunctional things to my sense of balance and visual perception again.

I'm fantasizing about printing up some T-shirts saying "I HATE MY LAZY INCOMPETENT SLUMLORD" and going door-to-door within this complex selling them to everyone as my revenge.

Comments

[jodawi.livejournal.com]

i will beam millions of tiny mental ice crystals at your skin as i go flop into bed and dream. Please allow 5 to 10 minutes before assuming that i do not have magic powers.

[inkstained.livejournal.com]

That's ridiculous he's endangering your health. You can do them for that.

-ink

[cityskyline.livejournal.com]

i'd purchase one of those shirts!

[ksuzy.livejournal.com]

What are they waiting for NOW?? (to fix your a/c)
That's ridiculous!

[epanastatis.livejournal.com]

I'm fantasizing about printing up some T-shirts saying "I HATE MY LAZY INCOMPETENT SLUMLORD" and going door-to-door within this complex selling them to everyone as my revenge.

You could start a movement!

[now.livejournal.com]

gayle, I'm worried about you!
is there a public place nearby with air-conditioning you could hang out at? like a coffee shop or a bookstore or something? you need to get out of the heat for a while, I think.

hope it gets better, man.

:)

Strange question to ask an American, but....

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

are you getting enough salt in your diet? Sounds like your blood pressure is getting really low from the heat. I get that too. The problem with drinking lots of fluids is that your body sweats salt water, which gets replaced with non-salt water, so your salt levels go down and with them your blood pressure, which causes fun things like the "stand-up and black out" phenomenon I love so much. This plagued me every summer, until one year my great-grandmother, a Michigan farm girl in her youth, said I needed salt. In her day, the farm hands actually took salt tablets, because they sweated so much in the summer time. I followed her advice and have been fine ever since. I eat something salty, like pretzels, or if I'm in no mood to screw around, I pour a little bit of salt into my hand and lick it up. It really works for me, and besides, pretzels are tasty.

Re: Strange question to ask an American, but....

[elfbabe.livejournal.com]

Actually, I used to have low blood pressure and dizziness/blackout issues when standing up, as well. Then I started eating more salt out of a vague feeling of, "Hey, maybe this will help!" and I haven't felt dizzy like that since late last summer.

And my food's tastier, too. ^_-